Starry Night
Starry Night opens with a bright citrus-apple clarity that feels clean and almost candied, the lemon and bergamot providing sharp edges around the fruit's sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Musky80
- Amber70
- Citrus70
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readStarry Night opens with a bright citrus-apple clarity that feels clean and almost candied, the lemon and bergamot providing sharp edges around the fruit's sweetness. It's immediate and unambiguous, a perfume that announces itself without hesitation.
As it settles, jasmine and rose emerge through a veil of patchouli that's been scrubbed of its earthy darkness. The floral heart maintains the composition's transparent quality rather than deepening it, while the patchouli acts more as a soft shadow than a grounding force. The interplay stays light, almost weightless.
The drydown is where Montale's house style becomes most apparent: white musk and amber create that particular synthetic shimmer the brand favors, sweet and persistent without much variation. This is a straightforward fragrance built for presence rather than complexity, suited to those who want an easy floral that projects reliably and doesn't demand contemplation. It wears young and unapologetically synthetic in the way some contemporary Middle Eastern perfumery embraces.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
